| Author: | Hans Morgenthau |
| Pub Date: | 1951 |
| Publisher: | Knopf |
In Defense of the National Interest (full title In Defense of the National interest: A Critical Examination of American Foreign Policy) is a 1951 book by realist academic Hans Morgenthau.[1] The book is a critique of what Morgenthau calls 'deeply ingrained habits of thought and preconceptions as to the nature of foreign policy in the United States'.[2]